| It interacts with you, responds to its environment, and evidently pursues goals, but a nonconscious robot could also do those things. |
| The model is also consistent with the growing recognition of nonrational and nonconscious processes in cognition. |
| People will push back so intensely because they experience a strong nonconscious threat response. |
| One implication is that one needs to differentiate what was previously called unconscious activity in at least two categories: nonconscious and unconscious activities. |
| Yet psychologists are coming to appreciate the profound importance of nonconscious mimicry in making us feel loved and appreciated, or simply smoothing the edges of our everyday affairs. |
| They seem less reasonable to many than the more common notions of the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud and others that laughter either results from or is related to the nonconscious reduction of tensions or inhibitions. |
